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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1895
Page
3
Town penny press itemizing price offers at Jankeons and Jackson stores, lodging at the European Heel, various notices, social visits, and civic updates. Mentions Hunter’s Southern trip, local church preaching, Watauga Tannery expansion, and movements of families including the Hardins and Smiths.
Reverend M D Mitchell preached at the Southern Methodist church, with his sermons praised. Chancellor Smith names W G Mathes as assignee of Citizens Bank, replacing E H Stevens who left for private business. Browning and Cloyd wed near Washington College, followed by Walter R Brown and Glenna Hale marriage in Bristol route.
A Morristown photographer Mr W K Hodges and Heather Hodges will wed Miss Mary Viola Rippe toe May 8 at 11 30 a m at the bride’s parents home. They will depart by southbound vestibule train for Nashville and New Orleans and other southern points. Bristol Courier.
Mary Lide aged eleven, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs K Lide, died after months of illness from a malignant glandular affliction. Despite treatment in Noahville, her condition worsened and she passed peacefully at home with family present. Funeral is today at 6 o clock led by Rev S R Preston, burial in the city cemetery.
Nashville April 41 candidates for the three judges of the newly created chancery court of appeals are named from East Middle and West Tennessee. East Tennessee lists John W. Yoo J W Caldwell R M Barton Jr J W McSween T Cato Sr Reeves Jonesboro. West Tennessee names M M Meier D M Ewing L Bullock N W Baptist Covington Middle Tennessee includes Baxter Smith J A Gurtwright John H Henderson F Wilson B A Hatcher Thomas R Myers W B Lamb John Sanders James W Rive.
The Johnson City W C T U begins this year with Lat Evangelistic work under Mrs B D Wilson, lower Mission with Miss Lucy Hardin, and Press Work supervised by Mrs McFarland and Mrs Jent es for three months. Each department will contribute to this column. The note adds a remark from J Hulland contrasting Swiss temperance with American in temperance.
The May Scribner's features Mrs. Humphry Ward's short serial Story of Business Costre about life among poor English farm laborers, plus President Andrew's History of the Last Quarter Century, a Utah peace vote report, hygiene notes, and Delineator May items on gowns, weddings, May Day festivity, dining table decor, seasonable cookery, markets, and tea gossip.
In a federal court hearing today Harper Bros and A M Palmer sought an injunction to stop a Lyceum stock company from producing Trilby. Defendants contend Trilby originated in France in 1820 and England in 1847, arguing the work is common property for seventy five years. The court postponed the hearing to Wednesday morning to allow time for consultation with clients in New York.
Virginia woman’s aut may 7 round trip tickets to Washington at one fare, 15 days, with 16 extra days if deposited by may 16. Routes via Bristol or Knoxville and the Land of the Sky. Tennessee delegates travel may 7. through sleeper options and daylight Land of the Sky passage. Also mentions catarrh cure ads and a murder context unrelated to travel details.
An Johnson City Tennessee inserter touts Hodges Printing Company offering cheap, smooth paper and AI writing surface at various per thousand rates. The ad emphasizes cash payment and urges customers to place large orders locally rather than traveling to bigger towns.
The State of Tennessee Washington county attaches M L Parker in an action by Cy H Lyle for debt of 2.55 on probated account. Parker, a non resident, is summoned to appear at noon on June 2 1805 before Justice M I Gump to defend the attachment action. Property levied includes Lots 2in binck 7 in Johnson City Land and Improvement Company addition fronting Fulton street.
An advertisement touts Bacco-Curo as a purely vegetable scientific cure for tobacco addiction. It claims to ease withdrawal without willpower, guarantees permanent cure in three boxes or refunds with interest, and offers sample materials via mail from Eureka Chemical & Manufacturing Chemists in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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